
Learn how to build a grassroots foundation for diversity and inclusion in your team, turning curiosity into action and creating an environment where everyone can thrive.
Engage in reflection activities that turn learnings into action plans, anchoring you at the start of your journey and exploring why you joined this course and your belonging experiences.
Build a grassroots foundation for diversity, inclusion, equity, and intersectionality in your team using the Advocate's Journey, with ongoing education, a dedicated community, and practical DNI guidelines and examples.
Explore why diversity matters and how the business and moral cases for DNI intersect, with evidence that diversity boosts performance and fuels innovation.
Inclusion transforms workplaces by elevating representation and belonging, showing how diverse communities and privilege can support DNI to help everyone learn, heal, and grow.
Build a grassroots foundation for DNI by fostering a shared vision, clear responsibilities, and structured, bottom-up collaboration that sustains long-term commitment.
Explore the six-stage framework called the Advocates Journey to build a grassroots diversity and inclusion foundation by breaking complex DNI problems into steps and advancing from unaware to advocating.
Explore the advocate's journey across six stages to move teams from apathy to empowerment, using a grassroots DNI strategy that meets people where they are and avoids shaming.
design concrete inclusion programs and take small actionable steps on the journey toward diversity, recognizing that progress is gradual, often unseen, and centers on people and leadership.
Look inward to tailor diversity and inclusion initiatives to your organization's culture, personal motivation, and unique resources, avoiding copy-paste playbooks and addressing autonomy-driven resistance.
Start small to build a grassroots foundation for diversity and inclusion. Small, feasible actions boost execution, learning, and support, setting the stage for bigger, sustainable gains.
Build momentum for DNI by amplifying what's working and building on existing strengths, such as a benefit that attracts URMs, and workshops or trainings for other managers.
Explore how HR and management integrate DNI into recruiting, onboarding, performance, and development. Learn to engage managers as partners, turning them into diversity champions early on.
Map out your organization's potential task forces and stakeholders, including ERGs, allies, HR, and managers to engage. Use the attached exercise to identify who’s on your team.
Discover quick wins for diversity and inclusion with low-effort ideas like book clubs, movie nights, and integrating DNI into team forums; pilot at the team level to build momentum.
Expand moderate efforts by organizing ideas with courage. Implement decor changes, gender-neutral bathrooms, diverse testimonials, ERG recruiting, and allyship workshops.
Build a strong grassroots foundation by applying diversity insights beyond recruiting, turning unaware communities into advocates, and completing an action plan with a partner supported by curated resources.
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What do you do when you’re faced with a big, seemingly insurmountable and ambiguous problem like fostering Diversity & Inclusion in the workplace? How do you even know where to start? This course is focused on just that, starting D&I initiatives at a grassroots level to drive organization-wide change.
With this approach, you don’t need to rely on formal, top-down directives to make your environment into a better place to work. This grassroots approach empowers you to take matters into your own hands, while being guided by the basic structure for building the foundation of an effective D&I program.
My name is Jennifer Kim, I’m an HR leader and D&I consultant working to make effective D&I a reality at more and more companies. Since there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to creating a D&I strategy, this course is all about figuring out where you are and what would work best for you to integrate D&I into your culture.
In this course you’ll learn:
Key terms in the D&I space
The business case for D&I and who is responsible for building D&I in an organization (hint: it's not just HR!)
A framework called the Advocate's Journey, which helps you understand where people are in their understanding of D&I and how you can move them forward
Who to include in your efforts and how to get buy-in for your work by engaging the right stakeholders
Easy, moderate, and big ideas you can implement in your organization
How to move forward to create a D&I strategy for your company
Building a diverse and inclusive workplace is not only good business and the morally right thing to do, it’s one of the most transformative things you can work on in your career. I personally have experienced the immense sense of purpose and satisfaction that comes from D&I work, and have gotten to help many others go through the same. I can’t wait to share that with you in this course, so enroll today!